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• 332 – Constantine the Great announced free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
• 1096 – First Crusade: around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany
• 1152 – Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
• 1268 – The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
• 1291 – Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land
• 1302 – Bruges Matins, the nocturnal massacre of the French garrison in Bruges by members of the local Flemish militia.
• 1388 – During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan.
• 1499 – Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela.
• 1565 – The Great Siege of Malta begins, in which Ottoman forces attempt and fail to conquer Malta.
• 1565 – The Royal Audiencia of Concepción is created by a decree of Philip II of Spain.
• 1593 – Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.
• 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.
• 1756 – The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
• 1763 – Fire destroys a large part of Montreal
• 1783 – First United Empire Loyalists reach Parrtown (later called Saint John), New Brunswick, Canada after leaving the United States.
• 1803 – Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
• 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French by the French Senate.
• 1811 – Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
• 1812 – John Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval.
• 1843 – The Disruption in Edinburgh of the Free Church of Scotland from the Church of Scotland.
• 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1860 – Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
• 1896 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
• 1896 – Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
• 1900 – The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
• 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• 1912 – The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai.
• 1917 – World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
• 1926 – Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
• 1927 – The Bath School disaster: forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
• 1927 – After being founded for 20 years, the Government of the Republic of China approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China.
• 1933 – New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• 1944 – World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
• 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
• 1948 – The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking.
• 1953 – Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
• 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
• 1956 – First ascent of Lhotse 8,516 meters, by a Swiss team.
• 1958 – An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).
• 1959 – Launch of the National Liberation Committee of Côte d'Ivoire in Conakry, Guinea.
• 1965 – Israeli spy Eli Cohen was hanged in Damascus, Syria.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
• 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
• 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time. It collapsed on August 8, 1991.
• 1980 – Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.
• 1980 – Gwangju Massacre: students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
• 1983 – In Ireland, the government launches a crackdown, with the leading Dublin pirate Radio Nova being put off the air.
• 1990 – In France, a modified TGV train achieves a new rail world speed record of 515.3 km/h (320.2 mph).
• 1991 – Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
• 1993 – Riots in Nørrebro, Copenhagen caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum. Police opened fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injured 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
• 2005 – A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
• 2006 – The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a secular country.
• 2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
• 2011 – Twenty-two people are killed when Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.

Births[edit]

• 1048 – Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet (d. 1131)
• 1186 – Konstantin of Rostov (d. 1218)
• 1450 – Piero Soderini, Florentine statesman (d. 1513)
• 1474 – Isabella d'Este, Italian wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua (d. 1539)
• 1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian engraver (d. 1664)
• 1662 – George Smalridge, English bishop (d. 1719)
• 1692 – Joseph Butler, English bishop, theologian, and apologist (d. 1752)
• 1711 – Ruđer Bošković, Croatian physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1787)
• 1777 – John George Children, English chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (d. 1852)
• 1778 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish soldier and diplomat (d. 1854)
• 1785 – John Wilson, Scottish author and critic (d. 1854)
• 1797 – Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, King of Saxony (d. 1854)
• 1822 – Mathew Brady, American photographer (d. 1896)
• 1850 – Oliver Heaviside, English engineer, mathematician, and physicist (d. 1925)
• 1851 – James Budd, American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of California (d. 1908)
• 1852 – Gertrude Käsebier, American photographer (d. 1934)
• 1854 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1924)
• 1855 – Francis Bellamy, American minister and author (d. 1931)
• 1862 – Josephus Daniels, American publisher and politician, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1948)
• 1868 – Nicholas II of Russia, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (d. 1918)
• 1871 – Denis Horgan, Irish thrower (d. 1922)
• 1872 – Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
• 1873 – Lucy Beaumont, English actress (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Hermann Müller, German politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1931)
• 1878 – Johannes Terwogt, Dutch rower (d. 1977)
• 1882 – Babe Adams, American baseball player, manager, and journalist (d. 1968)
• 1883 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and politician, 16th President of Brazil (d. 1974)
• 1883 – Walter Gropius, German-American architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building (d. 1969)
• 1887 – Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
• 1889 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (d. 1944)
• 1891 – Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher (d. 1970)
• 1892 – Ezio Pinza, Italian-American opera singer (d. 1957)
• 1895 – Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (d. 1934)
• 1896 – Eric Backman, Swedish long-distance runner (d. 1965)
• 1897 – Frank Capra, Italian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1991)
• 1898 – Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author and later politician (d. 1973)
• 1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
• 1902 – Meredith Willson, American playwright and composer (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator (d. 1971)
• 1904 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (d. 1986)
• 1905 – Hedley Verity, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1907 – Irene Hunt, American author (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Lincoln Stedman, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1909 – Fred Perry, English tennis player (d. 1995)
• 1910 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Perry Como, American singer and actor (d. 2001)
• 1912 – Walter Sisulu, South African politician (d. 2003)
• 1913 – Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English activist (d. 2000)
• 1913 – Mary Howard de Liagre, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1913 – Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
• 1914 – Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1917 – Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (d. 1973)
• 1918 – Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Margot Fonteyn, English ballerina (d. 1991)
• 1920 – Pope John Paul II (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer and actress (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Michael A. Epstein, British pathologist
• 1922 – Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian psychologist (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Bill Macy, American actor
• 1922 – Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer (d. 1983)
• 1923 – Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Hugh Shearer, Jamaican politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• 1925 – Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Dirch Passer, Danish actor, singer, and producer (d. 1980)
• 1927 – Richard Body, British politician
• 1927 – Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1928 – Pernell Roberts, American actor and singer (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Jack Sanford, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1929 – Norman St John-Stevas, British politician (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Fred Saberhagen, American author (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Barrie Cooke, Anglo-Irish painter (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (d. 2000)
• 1931 – Robert Morse, American actor and singer
• 1931 – Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player (d. 1995)
• 1931 – Clément Vincent, Canadian politician
• 1933 – Bernadette Chirac, French politician
• 1933 – H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
• 1933 – Don Whillans, English mountaineer (d. 1985)
• 1934 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director
• 1936 – Leon Ashley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Rita Cadillac, French dancer, singer, and actress (d. 1995)
• 1936 – Michael Sandle, British sculptor
• 1936 – Türker İnanoğlu, Turkish screenwriter, film director and producer
• 1937 – Brooks Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1937 – Jacques Santer, Luxembourger politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• 1938 – Joan Blackman, American actress
• 1938 – Janet Fish, American painter
• 1939 – Silvana Armenulić, Bosnian singer and actress
• 1939 – Patrick Cormack, British politician
• 1939 – Giovanni Falcone, Italian judge (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Gordon O'Connor, Canadian general and politician, 38th Minister of Defence for Canada
• 1940 – Erico Aumentado, Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Eddy Palchak, Canadian ice hockey trainer and manager (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Gino Brito, Canadian wrestler
• 1941 – Malcolm Longair, British astronomer
• 1941 – Miriam Margolyes, English-Australian actress
• 1942 – Nobby Stiles, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1943 – Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-American wrestler and actor
• 1944 – Albert Hammond, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Family Dogg)
• 1944 – W. G. Sebald, German author and academic (d. 2001)
• 1946 – Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China
• 1946 – Ameril Umbra Kato, Filipino warlord (d. 2015)
• 1946 – Reggie Jackson, American baseball player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1946 – Andreas Katsulas, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1946 – Gerd Langguth, German political scientist and author (d. 2013)
• 1947 – John Bruton, Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
• 1947 – Gail Strickland, American actress
• 1947 – Hugh Keays-Byrne, Indian-Australian actor
• 1948 – Yi Munyol, South Korean author
• 1948 – Richard Swedberg, Swedish sociologist
• 1948 – Tom Udall, American lawyer and politician, 28th New Mexico Attorney General
• 1949 – Rick Wakeman, English keyboard player and songwriter (Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, and Warhorse)
• 1950 – Thomas Gottschalk, German television host
• 1950 – Rod Milburn, American hurdler (d. 1997)
• 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh, American singer-songwriter (Devo)
• 1950 – Nick Wyman, American actor, and President of the Actors' Equity Association
• 1951 – Jim Sundberg, American baseball player
• 1951 – Angela Voigt, German long jumper (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Diane Duane, American author
• 1952 – David Leakey, British military commander
• 1952 – George Strait, American singer, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1952 – Jeana Yeager, American pilot
• 1954 – Reinhold Heil, German-American pianist and composer (Spliff)
• 1954 – Wreckless Eric, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1955 – Chow Yun-fat, Hong Kong actor
• 1955 – Lena T. Hansson, Swedish actress
• 1955 – Peeter Vähi, Estonian composer
• 1956 – Catherine Corsini, French director and screenwriter
• 1956 – John Godber, English dramatist
• 1957 – Michael Cretu, Romanian-German keyboard player and producer (Moti Special, Enigma)
• 1957 – Henrietta Moore, British social anthropologist
• 1957 – Jane Root, British broadcasting executive
• 1958 – Rubén Omar Romano, Argentinian-Mexican footballer and coach
• 1958 – Toyah Willcox, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Toyah, The Humans, and Sunday All Over the World)
• 1959 – Graham Dilley, English cricketer (d. 2011)
• 1959 – Jay Wells, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – Brent Ashton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Jari Kurri, Finnish ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 1960 – Yannick Noah, French tennis player and singer
• 1960 – Mal Pope, Welsh musician and composer
• 1961 – Jim Bowden, American sportscaster
• 1961 – Russell Senior, former guitarist and violinist of Pulp
• 1962 – Sandra, German singer (Arabesque and Enigma)
• 1962 – Mike Darnell, American businessman
• 1962 – Nanne Grönvall, Swedish singer-songwriter (One More Time)
• 1962 – Olga Volozhinskaya, Russian ice dancer and choreographer
• 1962 – Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (d. 2009)
• 1963 – Marty McSorley, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and actor
• 1963 – Sam Vincent, American basketball player and coach
• 1964 – Ignasi Guardans, Spanish politician
• 1965 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (d. 1995)
• 1966 – Renata Nielsen, Danish long jumper
• 1966 – Michael Tait, American singer-songwriter and producer (DC Talk, Tait, and Newsboys)
• 1967 – Rob Base, American rapper (Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock)
• 1967 – Nina Björk, Swedish journalist and author
• 1967 – Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German race car driver
• 1967 – Nancy Juvonen, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Flower Films
• 1968 – Sergei Martynov, Belarusian target shooter
• 1968 – Ralf Kelleners, German racing driver
• 1969 – Martika, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1970 – Tina Fey, American actress, screenwriter, and producer
• 1970 – Tim Horan, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Billy Howerdel, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (A Perfect Circle and Ashes Divide)
• 1971 – Brad Friedel, American soccer player
• 1971 – Mark Menzies, Scottish polician
• 1971 – Nobuteru Taniguchi, Japanese race car driver
• 1972 – Turner Stevenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1973 – The Blue Meanie, American wrestler and actor
• 1973 – Donyell Marshall, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1973 – Aleksandr Olerski, Estonian footballer (d. 2011)
• 1974 – Nelson Figueroa, American baseball player
• 1974 – Valmo Kriisa, Estonian basketball player
• 1975 – John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
• 1975 – Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Ron Mercer, American basketball player
• 1976 – Marko Tomasović, Croatian pianist and composer
• 1976 – Oleg Tverdovsky, Ukrainian ice hockey player
• 1977 – Lee Hendrie, English footballer
• 1977 – Danny Mills, English footballer
• 1978 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 1978 – Jessica Cutler, American blogger and author
• 1978 – Chad Donella, Canadian actor
• 1978 – Marcus Giles, American baseball player
• 1978 – William Herbert, English peer and landowner
• 1978 – Charles Kamathi, Kenyan long-distance runner
• 1979 – Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game designer, co-designed Minecraft
• 1979 – Anna Chatziathanassiou, Greek figure skater
• 1979 – Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1979 – Michal Martikán, Slovak canoe racer
• 1979 – David Nail, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 – Milivoje Novaković, Slovenian footballer
• 1979 – Julián Speroni, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 – Reggie Evans, American basketball player
• 1980 – Michaël Llodra, French tennis player
• 1980 – Matt Long, American actor
• 1980 – Felicia Pearson, American actress, singer, and author
• 1980 – Diego Pérez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Ali Zafar, Pakistani singer-songwriter, actor, and director
• 1981 – Mahamadou Diarra, Malian footballer
• 1982 – Jason Brown, English footballer
• 1982 – Marie-Ève Pelletier, Canadian tennis player
• 1983 – Gary O'Neil, English footballer
• 1983 – Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 – Vince Young, American football player
• 1984 – Ivet Lalova, Bulgarian sprinter
• 1984 – Simon Pagenaud, French race car driver
• 1984 – Darius Šilinskis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1984 – Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 – Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
• 1985 – Francesca Battistelli, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Dalma Kovács, Romanian singer and actress
• 1985 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
• 1985 – Henrique Sereno, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 – Ahmed Hamada, Egyptian race car driver
• 1986 – Katya Shchekina, Russian model
• 1986 – Kevin Anderson, South African tennis player
• 1987 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentinian actress and singer
• 1988 – Taeyang, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Big Bang)
• 1988 – Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
• 1988 – Kōji Seto, Japanese actor and singer
• 1990 – Heo Ga-yoon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (4minute and 2YOON)
• 1990 – Luke Kleintank, American actor
• 1990 – Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 – Spencer Breslin, American actor and singer
• 1993 – Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1998 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
• 1999 – Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter

Deaths[edit]

• 526 – Pope John I (b. 470)
• 1401 – Vladislaus II of Opole (b. 1332)
• 1550 – Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1498)
• 1551 – Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian painter (b. 1486)
• 1584 – Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese commander (b. 1559)
• 1675 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer, theologian, and historian (b. 1623)
• 1675 – Jacques Marquette, French-American missionary and explorer (b. 1637)
• 1692 – Elias Ashmole, English astrologer and politician (b. 1617)
• 1733 – Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
• 1780 – Charles Hardy, English-American admiral and politician, 29th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1714)
• 1781 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian-Indian rebel leader (b. 1742)
• 1792 – Levy Solomons, Canadian merchant and fur trader (b. 1730)
• 1795 – Robert Rogers, American colonial frontiersman (b. 1731)
• 1799 – Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright (b. 1732)
• 1800 – Alexander Suvorov, Russian general (b. 1729)
• 1807 – John Douglas, Scottish bishop and scholar (b. 1721)
• 1808 – Elijah Craig, American minister, inventor, and educator, invented Bourbon whiskey (b. 1738)
• 1829 – Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (b. 1803)
• 1844 – Richard McCarty, American politician (b. 1780)
• 1853 – Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic German/French chess player (b. 1806)
• 1889 – Isabella Glyn, Scottish-English actress (b. 1823)
• 1900 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French archaeologist and philosopher (b. 1813)
• 1908 – Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1909 – George Meredith, English author and poet (b. 1828)
• 1910 – Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author (b. 1841)
• 1910 – Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
• 1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1927 – Andrew Kehoe, American educator and murderer, committed the Bath School disaster (b. 1872)
• 1941 – Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 – Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 – Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (b. 1875)
• 1956 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1958 – Jacob Fichman, Israeli poet and critic (b. 1881)
• 1963 – Ernie Davis, American football player, coach, and manager (b. 1939)
• 1967 – Andy Clyde, Scottish-American actor (b. 1892)
• 1971 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
• 1973 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician (b. 1880)
• 1975 – Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
  • Reid Blackburn, American photographer and journalist (b. 1952)
  • David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
  • Harry Randall Truman, American owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896)
• 1980 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
• 1981 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 – William Saroyan, American author and playwright (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Mahdi Amel, Lebanese Marxist political activist (b. 1936)
• 1988 – Daws Butler, American voice actor (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Jill Ireland, English-American actress (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Skip Stephenson, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
• 1992 – Marshall Thompson, American actor and director (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 – Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist (b. 1911)
• 1995 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1997 – Bridgette Andersen, American actress (b. 1975)
• 1999 – Augustus Pablo, Jamaican singer, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1954)
• 1999 – Betty Robinson, American runner (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi, Indian-Pakistani scholar (b. 1932)
• 2000 – Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Irene Hunt, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 2002 – Davey Boy Smith, English wrestler (b. 1962)
• 2003 – Anna Santisteban, Puerto Rican businesswoman (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Barb Tarbox, Canadian activist (b. 1961)
• 2004 – Elvin Jones, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (b. 1946)
• 2004 – Çetin Alp, Turkish pop music singer (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Jaan Eilart, Estonian phytogeographer, landscape ecologist, cultural historian and conservationist (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Andrew Martinez, American activist (b. 1972)
• 2007 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Yoyoy Villame, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Joseph Pevney, American actor and director (b. 1911)
• 2009 – Dolla, American rapper (b. 1987)
• 2009 – Wayne Allwine, American voice actor and sound editor (b. 1947)
• 2009 – Velupillai Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan rebel leader, founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (b. 1954)
• 2009 – Türkan Saylan, Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Jai Gurudev, Indian religious leader (b. 1895)
• 2012 – Peter Jones, English-Australian drummer (Crowded House and Deadstar) (b. 1967)
• 2012 – Alan Oakley, English bicycle designer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Paul O'Sullivan, Canadian actor and educator (b. 1964)
• 2013 – Aleksei Balabanov, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2013 – Jo Benkow, Norwegian politician (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Mario Bichón, Chilean politician (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Neil Chrisley, American baseball player (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Steve Forrest, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Zahra Shahid Hussain, Pakistani politician (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Ernst Klee, German journalist and author (b. 1942)
• 2013 – David McMillan, American football player (b. 1981)
• 2013 – Newton Russell, American politician (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Lothar Schmid, German chess player (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Claramae Turner, American opera singer and actress (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Arthur Malet, English actor (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Jerry Vale, American singer and actor (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (b. 1931)

Στο Αίγιο με τη μητέρα του ο ελληνικής καταγωγής βραβευμένος με Οσκαρ Αλεξάντερ Πέιν 

Ο ελληνικής καταγωγής καλλιτέχνης επισκέφθηκε την πατρίδα του το Αίγιο,

Ο Aλέξανδρος Κωνσταντίνος Παπαδόπουλος (όπως είναι το ελληνικό του όνομα) 

παρακολούθησε μαζί με το κοινό την τελευταία του ταινία «Νεμπράσκα» υποψήφια 

για 6 Οσκαρ πέρσι,ενώ Εκατοντάδες οι οπαδοί του σκηνοθέτη τον προσέγγισαν 

για αυτόγραφα, φωτογραφίες και συζητήσεις.

Ο Αλεξάντερ Πέιν θεωρείται ως ένας από τους κορυφαίους σκηνοθέτες/

σεναριογράφους της γενιάς του, ενώ, έχει ήδη λάβει πολλά βραβεία, ανάμεσά τους

 και δύο Οσκαρ για τις ταινίες Sideways (Πλαγίως) και The Descendants (Οι απόγονοι).

Τοπική επιχείρηση, μάλιστα, του έκανε ένα συγκινητικό δώρο

. Μια φωτογραφία από το μακρινό 1966 όταν ο μπόμπιρας τότε σκηνοθέτης είχε

 επισκεφθεί και πάλι την πόλη με τη μητέρα του.

Μάλιστα, στο λόγο του όταν κέρδισε το Οσκαρ είχε μιλήσει ελληνική αφιερώνοντας

 το βραβείο στη μητέρα του και λέγοντάς της «Σε αγαπώ πολύ μαμά».

Χαρακτηριστικά μερικά από τα πιο σημαντικά έργα του
About Schmidt
Sideways
The Savages
The Descendants
Nebraska

 

 

Δοκιμάζοντας την καλύτερη τεκίλα στα 30.000 πόδια

Οι λάτρεις της τεκίλα, ο ουρανίσκος των οποίων ικανοποιείται μόνο με τις καλύτερες παρτίδες που υπάρχουν στον κόσμο, μπορούν πλέον να απολαμβάνουν το αγαπημένο τους ποτό… σε μεγάλα υψόμετρα!

Η εταιρεία Tequila Avion προσφέρει τη δυνατότητα στους πάμπλουτους λάτρεις του οινοπνευματώδους αυτού ποτού να ανεβάσουν την αγάπη τους για την τεκίλα σε νέα ύψη… και πιο συγκεκριμένα στα 30.000 πόδια!

Το πολυτελέστατο πακέτο κοστίζει 500.000 δολάρια για ένα γκρουπ 10 ατόμων, τα οποία μπορούν να απολαύσουν μοναδικές υπηρεσίες κατά τη διάρκεια της πιο ακριβής πτήσης γευσιγνωσίας.

Στο πλαίσιο της εμπειρίας αξίας μισού εκατομμυρίου δολαρίων, οι επιβάτες έχουν τη δυνατότητα να δοκιμάσουν τα καλύτερα προϊόντα της εταιρείας, μέσα σε ένα ιδιωτικό Gulfstream τζετ, ενώ ταξιδεύουν στους αιθέρες πάνω από το Μεξικό.



Ένας επαγγελματίας φωτογράφος θα καταγράφει κάθε τους στιγμή, καθώς δοκιμάζουν τις ακριβές σταγόνες της καλύτερης τεκίλα στα 30.000 πόδια. 

Το πακέτο περιλαμβάνει ακόμη μια ιδιωτική ξενάγηση στα αποστακτήρια της εταιρείας με τον ιδρυτή της, καθώς επίσης και ένα πολυτελέστατο γεύμα στο σπίτι του Νο. 1 οινοπνευματοποιού, Alejandro Lopez, απολαμβάνοντας τις δημιουργίες του σεφ Josh Capon από το εστιατόριο El Toro Blanco της Νέας Υόρκης.



Τέλος, οι συμμετέχοντες δε θα φύγουν με άδεια χέρια… μιας και όλοι θα πάρουν ένα μπουκάλι τεκίλα «για το δρόμο» από την προσωπική συλλογή του ιδρυτή της εταιρείας, Ken Austin.

Το ταξιδιωτικό πακέτο υπερπολυτελείας περιλαμβάνει ακόμη διαμονή για δύο βράδια στο πεντάστερο θέρετρο Las Alamandas στις ακτές του Ειρηνικού με ιδιωτικό μπάτλερ και σεκιούριτι.

Best, worst moments from the Billboard Music Awards

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Taylor Swift with her awards for: Top Artist, Billboard Chart Achievement Award, Top Female Artist, Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Digital Songs Artist, Top Streaming Song (Video) for "Shake it Off" and Top Billboard 200 Album for "1989." Photo: Reuters

“Mad Men”? Whatever. On Sunday night, the 2015 Billboard Awards made for priority viewing for pop music fans.

The ceremony in Las Vegas (hosted by Chrissy Teigen and Ludacris) included performances from Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Mariah Carey and many more.

But not all the stars delivered on their promise.

Here’s our roundup of best and worst performances:

Best

Taylor Swift

The star-studded video to “Bad Blood” was impressive enough. But it deflected attention from the fact that the Kendrick Lamar remix cranks up the bombast levels on what is otherwise a weak spot from the “1989” album. Clearly, Taylor’s commitment to change is ongoing.

Nick Jonas

The sexification of Nick Jonas continues and this time, he donned his best rock star threads to deliver a slick, electro version of his smash “Jealous.” It was part Daft Punk, part the Killers, but not much Jonas Brothers — and that’s just the ratio he wants.

Simple Minds

Thirty years on, and “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” can still get a room singing along like few other ‘80s pop songs.

Hozier

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The Irishman’s signature track “Take Me to Church” is almost two years old and yet, it hasn’t lost an ounce of its drama and beauty. One of those rare songs that seems overkill-proof.

Tidal Commercial

It might not bring paying customers to Jay Z’s music streaming service in droves, but props to whoever picked out Coldcut’s “Seven Minutes of Madness” remix of Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” to soundtrack Tidal’s commercial. A rarely heard religious text in the history of hip-hop remixes.

Worst

Van Halen

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The one-time glam-rockers looked like a bunch of dudes touring the Midwestern sports bar circuit, singer David Lee Roth was playing the full creepy uncle routine, and “Panama” sounded like a croaky, wheezy rock ‘n’ roll relic. The minor victory is that they were, at least, able to stop bitching at each other just long enough to get through the performance.

Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth

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Charlie Puth (on the piano) and Wiz KhalifaPhoto: Getty Images

One of 2015’s great injustices is that Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars did not set a new record for the longest-running No. 1 single of all time with “Uptown Funk.” The salt in the wound is that Khalifa & Co. replaced it with the sappy nonsense that is “See You Again.”

Iggy Azalea and Britney Spears

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Britney Spears and Iggy AzaleaPhoto: Getty Images

There is no kind of choreography, no combination of day-glo colors, and no amount of roller-skating backup dancers that can cover up the fact that “Pretty Girls” is a really terrible song.

Mariah Carey

Oh, Mariah. Dear, dear Mariah. Our one and only Mariah. What happened to you?

Kanye West

Yeezy delivered his usual fire (this time, literally) for fierce versions of “All Day/Black Skinhead,” but ABC’s censors dipped the sound so that most of it was inaudible, thus completely ruining the segment. They obviously didn’t ask Kanye nicely enough to adhere to FCC regulations on profanity.

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• 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Tai zong at Jiucheng Palace.
• 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
• 1051 – Henry I of France is married to Anne of Kiev.
• 1445 – John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo.
• 1499 – Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12.
• 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
• 1542 – The Prome Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in present-day Burma.
• 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• 1643 – Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power.
• 1649 – An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years.
• 1655 – The Invasion of Jamaica begins during the Anglo-Spanish War.
• 1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
• 1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars.
• 1780 – New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.
• 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
• 1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States.
• 1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
• 1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
• 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
• 1911 – Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
• 1917 – the Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK was founded.
• 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
• 1921 – The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
• 1922 – The Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union is established.
• 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• 1941 – The Viet Minh, a communist coalition, formed at Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.
• 1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
• 1943 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.
• 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
• 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
• 1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
• 1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
• 1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
• 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
• 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12 during the Birmingham campaign advocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to "A Call for Unity": A statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologized statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
• 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1984 – Michael Larson, a contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck exploits a bug in the prize board, and wins over US$110,000.
• 1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum.
• 1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts.
• 2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
• 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.

Births[edit]

• 1593 – Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678)
• 1616 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (d. 1667)
• 1700 – José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda, Spanish politician (d. 1770)
• 1724 – Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (d. 1779)
• 1744 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
• 1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814)
• 1773 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (d. 1854)
• 1795 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1873)
• 1797 – Maria Isabel of Portugal (d. 1818)
• 1827 – Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1896)
• 1861 – Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936)
• 1871 – Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (d. 1963)
• 1874 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955)
• 1878 – Alfred Laliberté, Canadian sculptor and painter (d. 1953)
• 1879 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (d. 1964)
• 1880 – Albert Richardson, English architect and educator, designed the Manchester Opera House (d. 1964)
• 1881 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (d. 1938)
• 1884 – David Munson, American runner (d. 1953)
• 1886 – Francis Biddle, American lawyer and judge, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Ion Jalea, Romanian sculptor (d. 1983)
• 1889 – Tản Đà, Vietnamese poet (d. 1939)
• 1889 – Henry B. Richardson, American archer (d. 1963)
• 1890 – Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German illustrator (d. 1962)
• 1890 – Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of Vietnam (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Oswald Boelcke, German captain and pilot (d. 1916)
• 1893 – H. Bonciu, Romanian author, poet, and journalist (d. 1950)
• 1894 – Nicolae Secară, Bessarabian politician (d. 1942)
• 1897 – Frank Luke, American lieutenant and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Lothar Rădăceanu, Romanian journalist, linguist and politician (d. 1955)
• 1902 – Lubka Kolessa, Ukrainian-Canadian classical pianist and professor of piano (d.1997)
• 1906 – Bruce Bennett, American shot putter and actor (d. 2007)
• 1908 – Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian author (d. 1956)
• 1908 – Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994)
• 1908 – Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (d. 1982)
• 1909 – Nicholas Winton, English humanitarian
• 1910 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
• 1910 – Alan Melville, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
• 1913 – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (d. 1996)
• 1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1914 – John Vachon, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1915 – Renée Asherson, English actress (d. 2014)
• 1918 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist (d. 2000)
• 1919 – Georgie Auld, Canadian-American saxophonist, clarinet player, and bandleader (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Mitja Ribičič, Italian-Slovenian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Leslie Broderick, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Yuri Kochiyama, American activist (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Joe Gilmore, Irish bartender
• 1924 – Sandy Wilson, English composer and songwriter (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Pol Pot, Cambodian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Guy Provost, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
• 1925 – Malcolm X, American minister and activist (d. 1965)
• 1926 – Kriyananda, Romanian-American spiritual leader and author (d. 2013)
• 1926 – David Jacobs, English radio and television host (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Edward Parkes, English engineer and academic
• 1926 – Fernand Raynaud, French actor and singer (d. 1973)
• 1926 – Peter Zadek, German director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (d. 1982)
• 1928 – Thomas Kennedy, English air marshal (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Gil McDougald, American baseball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach
• 1929 – Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1929 – John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008)
• 1930 – Eugene Genovese, American historian and author (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright and director (d. 1965)
• 1931 – Bob Anderson, English race car driver (d. 1967)
• 1931 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor
• 1932 – Claude Blanchard, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
• 1932 – Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, author, and academic
• 1934 – Ruskin Bond, Indian author
• 1934 – Bill Fitch, American basketball player and coach
• 1934 – Jim Lehrer, American journalist and author
• 1935 – David Hartman, American journalist and actor
• 1937 – Pat Roach, English wrestler and actor (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (d. 1989)
• 1938 – Madge Hindle, English actress
• 1938 – Girish Karnad, Indian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright
• 1938 – Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Ukrainian long jumper and coach
• 1939 – Livio Berruti, Italian sprinter
• 1939 – James Fox, English actor and singer
• 1939 – Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong-American actress
• 1939 – Jānis Lūsis, Latvian javelin thrower
• 1939 – Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1940 – Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist
• 1940 – Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Bobby Burgess, American singer and dancer
• 1941 – Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Igor Judge, Baron Judge, Maltese-English lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• 1941 – Tania Mallet, English model and actress
• 1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994)
• 1942 – Robert Kilroy-Silk, English television host and politician
• 1943 – Eddie May, English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Shirrel Rhoades, American author
• 1944 – Peter Mayhew, English-American actor
• 1944 – Petre Popeangă, Romanian politician
• 1945 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Who, Deep End, and Thunderclap Newman)
• 1946 – Claude Lelièvre, Belgian activist
• 1946 – Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
• 1946 – André the Giant, French-American wrestler and actor (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Planxty and The Johnstons)
• 1947 – Christopher Chope, English lawyer and politician
• 1947 – Steve Currie, English bass player (T. Rex) (d. 1981)
• 1947 – David Helfgott, Australian pianist
• 1947 – Gijs IJlander, Dutch author
• 1948 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1949 – Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and bass player (ZZ Top and American Blues)
• 1949 – Philip Hunt, Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, English politician
• 1949 – Archie Manning, American football player and sportscaster
• 1950 – Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (d. 1998)
• 1951 – Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer and actor (d. 2008)
• 1951 – Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (Ramones and Sniper) (d. 2001)
• 1951 – Dick Slater, American wrestler
• 1952 – Charlie Spedding, English runner
• 1952 – Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 1953 – Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1953 – Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian swimmer
• 1953 – Florin Marin, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1953 – Dawud M. Mu'Min, American murderer (d. 1997)
• 1953 – Jimmy Thackery, American singer and guitarist (The Nighthawks)
• 1953 – Victoria Wood, English actress, singer, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Rick Cerone, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1954 – Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC and Buster Brown)
• 1954 – Hōchū Ōtsuka, Japanese voice actor
• 1955 – James Gosling, Canadian-American computer scientist, created Java
• 1956 – Steven Ford, American actor
• 1956 – Oliver Letwin, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1956 – Martyn Ware, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Human League and Heaven 17)
• 1957 – Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Nicole Brown Simpson, German-American murder victim (d. 1994)
• 1960 – Yazz, English singer
• 1961 – Vadim Cojocaru, Moldovan politician
• 1961 – Gregory Poirier, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Wayne Van Dorp, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1963 – Filippo Galli, Italian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Murali, Indian actor (d. 2010)
• 1964 – John Lee, South Korean-American football player
• 1964 – Miloslav Mečíř, Czech tennis player
• 1964 – Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor
• 1964 – Sean Whalen, American actor
• 1965 – Boris, French singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean model and television host, Miss Universe 1987
• 1965 – Maile Flanagan, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1966 – Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist
• 1966 – Jodi Picoult, American author
• 1966 – Polly Walker, English actress
• 1967 – Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and sculptor
• 1968 – Kyle Eastwood, American actor, singer, and bass player
• 1970 – K. J. Choi, South Korean golfer
• 1970 – Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
• 1970 – Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
• 1970 – Regina Narva, Estonian chess player
• 1971 – Psicosis, Mexican wrestler
• 1971 – Ross Katz, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1972 – Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base)
• 1972 – Claudia Karvan, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1973 – Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
• 1974 – Andrew Johns, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1974 – Emma Shapplin, French soprano
• 1975 – Pretinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
• 1975 – London Fletcher, American football player
• 1975 – Josh Paul, American baseball player and manager
• 1975 – Jonas Renkse, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Katatonia, Bloodbath, and October Tide)
• 1976 – Ed Cota, American basketball player
• 1976 – Kevin Garnett, American basketball player
• 1977 – Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer
• 1977 – Wouter Hamel, Dutch singer and guitarist
• 1977 – Brandon Inge, American baseball player
• 1977 – Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actress
• 1977 – Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress
• 1978 – Marcus Bent, English footballer
• 1978 – Dave Bus, Dutch footballer
• 1978 – Kim Zolciak, American singer
• 1979 – Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Bérénice Marlohe, French actress
• 1979 – Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• 1980 – Drew Fuller, American actor and model
• 1980 – Tony Hackworth, English footballer
• 1981 – Luciano Figueroa, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 – Yo Gotti, American rapper
• 1981 – Michael Leighton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 – Sina Schielke, German sprinter
• 1981 – Georges St-Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
• 1981 – Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
• 1981 – Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer
• 1982 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
• 1982 – Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 – Alexandru Găvan, Romanian mountaineer
• 1982 – Rebecca Hall, English actress
• 1982 – Klaas Vantornout, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 – Eve Angel, Hungarian porn actress and model
• 1983 – Michael Che, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1983 – Jessica Fox, English actress
• 1984 – Marcedes Lewis, American football player
• 1984 – Carla Lynch, English actress and model
• 1984 – Inna Modja, Malian-French singer
• 1985 – Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player
• 1986 – Mario Chalmers, American basketball player
• 1986 – Eric Lloyd, American actor
• 1987 – David Edgar, Canadian soccer player
• 1987 – Mariano Torres, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 – Jasmine, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1991 – Jordan Pruitt, American singer-songwriter
• 1992 – Michele Camporese, Italian footballer
• 1992 – Ola John, Dutch footballer
• 1992 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 – Carlos Guzmán, Mexican footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 804 – Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. 735)
• 988 – Dunstan, English archbishop (b. 909)
• 1102 – Stephen, Count of Blois (b. 1045)
• 1125 – Vladimir II Monomakh, Russian son of Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1053)
• 1296 – Pope Celestine V (b. 1215)
• 1319 – Louis, Count of Évreux (b. 1276)
• 1389 – Dmitry Donskoy, Russian son of Ivan II of Moscow (b. 1350)
• 1526 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464)
• 1531 – Jan Łaski, Polish diplomat (b. 1456)
• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, English wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501)
• 1601 – Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528)
• 1610 – Thomas Sanchez, Spanish priest and theologian (b. 1550)
• 1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
• 1715 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661)
• 1786 – John Stanley, English organist and composer (b. 1712)
• 1795 – Josiah Bartlett, American physician and politician, 4th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1729)
• 1795 – James Boswell, Scottish-English lawyer and author (b. 1740)
• 1798 – William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant (b. 1722)
• 1821 – Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771)
• 1825 – Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher (b. 1760)
• 1831 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Estonian-German physician, botanist, and entomologist (b. 1793)
• 1864 – Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
• 1865 – Sengge Rinchen, Mongolian general (b. 1811)
• 1876 – Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian and politician (b. 1801)
• 1885 – Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809)
• 1895 – José Martí, Cuban journalist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1853)
• 1898 – William Ewart Gladstone, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
• 1901 – Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (b. 1819)
• 1903 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856)
• 1904 – Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851)
• 1904 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (b. 1839)
• 1906 – Gabriel Dumont, Métis leader (b. 1837)
• 1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (b. 1840)
• 1912 – Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (b. 1847)
• 1915 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (b. 1892)
• 1918 – Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (b. 1885)
• 1935 – T. E. Lawrence, Welsh-English colonel (b. 1888)
• 1940 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1895)
• 1943 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Philipp Bouhler, German politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 – Booth Tarkington, American author and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1950 – Daniel Ciugureanu, Moldovan politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 – Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874)
• 1958 – Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1958 – Ronald Colman, English-American actor (b. 1891)
• 1963 – Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (b. 1871)
• 1965 – Tu'i Malila, Malagasy turtle (b. 1777)
• 1969 – Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Ogden Nash, American poet and author (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Li Tobler, Swiss model and actress (b. 1948)
• 1978 – Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
• 1983 – Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 – John Betjeman, English poet and academic (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Michael Silka, American spree killer (b. 1958)
• 1986 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1987 – James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 – C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and historian (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Jacques Ellul, French philosopher and social critic (b. 1912)
• 1994 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• 1994 – Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)
• 1996 – John Beradino, American baseball player and actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Sōsuke Uno, Japanese politician, 75th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
• 1999 – James Blades, English drummer (Melos Ensemble) (b. 1901)
• 1999 – Candy Candido, American actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 2001 – Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946)
• 2002 – John Gorton, Australian lieutenant and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Walter Lord, American historian and author (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981)
• 2004 – Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907)
• 2005 – Henry Corden, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Robert F. Furchgott, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2009 – Nicholas Maw, English composer and academic (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Clint Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Herbert York, American physicist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Bob Boozer, American basketball player (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Tamara Brooks, American conductor and educator (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Ian Burgess, English race car driver (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Gerhard Hetz, German swimmer (b. 1942)
• 2012 – Phil Lamason, New Zealand soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Bella Flores, Filipino actress (b. 1929)
• 2013 – G. Sarsfield Ford, American jurist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Robin Harrison, English-Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Carlo Monni, Italian actor (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Neil Reynolds, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Simon Andrews, English motorcycle racer (b. 1982)
• 2014 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Terry W. Gee, American businessman and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Sam Greenlee, American author (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Vincent Harding, American historian and scholar (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Sante Kimes, American murderer (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Gabriel Kolko, American historian and author (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Polish boxer (b. 1934)